Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Joyce, move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the 9th anniversary of the unveiling of the Irish famine memorial at Hyde Park Barracks by the Governor-General, Sir William Deane commemorating the 4 114 female orphans sent to the Australian colonies between 1848 and 1850, and

(ii)

the 160th anniversary of the arrival of the first ship, the Earl Grey in Sydney on 6 October 1848;

(b)

recognises the contributions made by those Irish settlers and their descendents to Australian society; and

(c)

notes:

(i)

the hardships suffered by the Irish emigrants as a result of the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1850, and

(ii)

the million lives lost during the Great Irish Famine, reducing the population of Ireland by between 20 to 25 per cent, from which the Irish population has only recently begun to recover.

Question agreed to.